AP ANALYSIS: US on sidelines of key Iraqi battle against IS
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iranian-backed Shiite militias and Sunni tribes have joined Iraq's military in a major operation to retake Saddam Hussein's hometown from the Islamic State group, while the U.S.-led coalition has remained on the sidelines....
3/3/2015 10:40 PM

New Greek government to spend $234M on poverty relief
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's new left-wing government is promising to spend 200 million euros ($234 million) this year on assistance programs for people pushed into "extreme poverty" by the financial crisis....
3/3/2015 9:26 PM

Canadians 'Spocking" the image of ex-PM on $5 bill
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) -- The death of actor Leonard Nimoy last week has inspired people to post photos on social media of marked-up five-dollar Canadian banknotes that show former prime minister Wilfrid Laurier transformed to resemble Spock, Nimoy's famous "Star Trek" character....
3/3/2015 8:45 PM

Portuguese jets will head to Romania for NATO mission in May
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) -- Four Portuguese F-16 fighter jets and 150 Portuguese troops and civilians will be sent to Ukraine neighbor Romania in May and June to participate in NATO aerial policing missions, Romania's top defense body said Tuesday....
3/3/2015 8:38 PM

War crimes prosecutors indict 5 in Bosnia 1993 train killing
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) -- Serbia's war crimes prosecutors have charged five people with abducting 20 people from a train in eastern Bosnia in 1993 and brutally killing them - a wartime massacre that traumatized the Balkans....
3/3/2015 8:07 PM

India orders TV stations not to give rapist a platform
NEW DELHI (AP) -- Indian authorities ordered television stations Tuesday not to broadcast a documentary about a gang rape on a New Delhi bus in which one of the attackers blames the victim and says she could have avoided being killed if she had not fought back, a government official said....
3/3/2015 7:49 PM